Dowr Krogos

This bowl is the deepest form in the collection, and its carved pattern follows the idea of water falling through a mineshaft. Each ringed mark echoes the way slow drops shape stone over time, leaving circular traces that widen as they erode the surface. The repeated pattern suggests years of steady movement revealing what lies beneath, a rhythm shaped by both water and the history of the workings below ground.

Set into the carved band are ten patinated copper discs. Their colour shifts hold the greens and browns of metal touched by salt water, like fragments uncovered in old stopes or brought to light after long quiet years. A single copper stitch sits across a natural line in the rim, a small but deliberate repair that mirrors the ways miners once braced and supported the ground around them.

The depth of the bowl lends a sense of descent, as though the carved rings could continue inward. Inside, the beech carries warm variation and a strong sense of movement. The vessel holds a clear link to Cornwall’s mining past, to the steady fall of water underground and the slow revealing of treasures once hidden in the dark.

21cm x 12cm

Beech wood, milk paint, hemp oil, copper, sea water